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>Dave said,
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>April 26, 2007 @ 10:06 am
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>If I can see my house and back lawn on Google Earth why doesn’t someone point a >hubble at the moon and show us the lander there in all it’s glory, and the foot >steps, flag, gold ball etc? Surely tha would put an end to all this?
well Dave, the difference is that 1st of all your house measures at least 15 meters across and is easily visible from an equatorial sattelite orbiting at 100 to 1000 miles overhead (check out http://www.spacetoday.org/Satellites/SatBytes/SatOrbits.html to see about satellite orbits)
In contrast to that, a lunar lander measures only about 4.5 or 5 m across (much less than your house) and is about 320.000 km (250.000 miles) away!!! and that is very far if you are looking for a 5 m object, even for a telescope! Also check out http://www.tass-survey.org/richmond/answers/lunar_lander.html which says about “Can we see Apollo hardware on the Moon?”, if I didn’t convince you, this will…